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Choosing the Appropriate Makeup Brushes

Monday, June 1st, 2009

Every girl need makeup brushes in her arsenal of beauty tools. They are essential to completing the look that you are going for when applying makeup. However, not any ‘ole brush will do the job. You must become knowledgeable in the proper brushes to use and how they function if you wish to have makeup that is dazzling in appearance.

Makeup brushes are not only for your eyes. In fact, there are brushes that are specifically designed for your eyebrows, lips, cheeks, and eyelashes. The key though is you utilizing the correct brush for the job.

Using a specialty makeup brush has many benefits:

  1. Specialty makeup brushes are far simpler to control than using your fingers. As a result, the outcome is much more precise.
  2. Makeup brushes help you achieve a matching effect – you don’t have to worry about one eye or cheek looking different than the other as would be the case if you used your fingers.
  3. Specialty makeup brushes provide you with a more natural, less cakey look.
  4. Using makeup brushes is cleaner than using your fingers which can contaminate your cosmetics.

Types of Brushes

There are hundreds of brushes available for use that range in size as well as cost. In order to choose the appropriate brush you’ll need to determine your makeup needs.

  • Lip Brushes- are designed to help you precisely blend colors and cosmetics on your lips
  • Blush Brushes – help you avoid the fiery cheeks look by expertly controlling the amount of blush applied to your cheeks.
  • Eye Brushes – help you blend colors on your eyes without worrying about if others will know where your colors begin or end.
  • Power Brushes – typically these are oversized brushes that are designed specifically to dust pressed or loose powder across your face.
  • Sponge Brushes – another brush that is designed to blend foundations that are usually wet and not dry or loose powder.

Makeup brushes are a great tool to have inside your arsenal of makeup tools as they provide the perfect finish to your overall look.